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...anniversary was not one to be celebrated. “We have moved ourselves into a worse direction as far as the treatment of survivors,” Bhabha said. “I think we fail dramatically, in terms of our response to genocide and our obligation to reconstruct a life and a world for the survivors.” Bhabha said that since 1948, the anti-genocide movement has not moved forward but backward. According to Goldstone, it is up to the United States to lead the world against genocide. “South Africa changed...
...international community that came to the aid of the school victims, just as they did the storm victims. After the hurricane, overseas volunteers helped clear roads, reconstruct bridges, and flew in to distribute much needed supplies. But hundreds of thousands of people live in remote areas that are inaccessible with even the sturdiest of four-wheel drive vehicles. There are only 2,400 miles of road in Haiti, which is the size of Maryland; and of those roads, just 600 miles are paved. There are also only 10,000 doctors, most of whom are located in the urban centers...
...decades experts had worked tirelessly to reconstruct the original version of the film on the basis of set photographs, intertitles (the text between scenes) and its score. Although large gaps remained - roughly 30 minutes, one quarter of the film's duration - when the results were made public in 2001, most critics believed this was the closest one would ever get to the definitive version...
...Bodle, a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania who helped identify the Pawlings Farm site as historically significant in the late 1970s. "Actually seeing the terrain and getting a sense of what it looks like does make a difference," he says. If historical sites are developed, "you could still reconstruct the narrative... but it would be pretty disorienting to try to explain it to people...
...Leaving documents the fall from grace of a powerful man. It takes an uncompromising, knowing look at the greed and excess that followed the fall of communism - a period that tends to be mythologized in the West. As an icon of that revolution, no one is better placed to reconstruct...